Local Brevities

The American hotel is to be rebuilt into a fo'.ir story structure with an elevator. Johnnie, seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Prieskom, died Monday evening. The Theosophical class is wrestling with the "occultism" of a book written by Claude Falls Wright, entitled "Modern Theosophy." Henry E. Fieldhauser, of Grayling, a consumptive patiënt, died at the residence of J. J. Fischer, on N. Main Street, Tuesday evening. Jacob Maurer, charged with stoning a house will be before Justice Pond today. His defense will be that he was without sin till he cast the first stone. There will be an important business meeting of the Humane society at the M. E. church, Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3 o'clock, p. m. All the members are urged to be present. "The better the day, the better the deed." Mrs. Pauline Hawkes, oLS. Fifth avenue, Monday evening precipitated a surprise party upon her father, that being the occasion of his Ó4th birthday. He bore the surprise and the weight of an added year with equanimity. Many railroads, araong which are the Central and Ann Arbor, will after Jan. i, check bicycles as ioo pounds excess baggage and baby carriages as 50 pounds do. In the latter case it looks like another blow at the young industries. John Blythman carelessly extended his right arm the other day, bringing it in contact with the person of Joe S. Parker, who brought Blythman into court before Justice Pond for assault and battery. The judge sent him to Detroit for 65 days and he has .ceased to be a blithe man. A cali for help for the needy and suffering of Nebraska, comes from Kev. J. Turner, Germán M. E. presiding eider of the Nebraska district. It is said that without assistance, many must starve. Those who have food or clothes to give are requested to leave the same with Mrs. J. Armbruster, No. 60 E. Washington strect, before December 12. The Sawyer & Co. dancing club las been reorgauized for the third eason, at Granger's. The "cat-holes" in front of the Michigan Central depot are receivng a filling of gravel. The Canadian colored Jubilee, Singers at the M. E. church, Mon-j iay evening, gave excellent 1 :ion. E. V. Hangsterfer moved into his lew store Tuesday. The vacated sremises will be used as a barber shop. A caten basin at the Michigan Central, near the terminus of the street car line, is a recent needed improvement. The.net proceeds of the A. M. E. church bazaar amounted to $57.19, beside an unmeasured quantity of solid enjoyment. The new loop of the street railway was on Wednesday connected with the trunk line, at State and William streets. A brother of Mrs. E. C. Sperry, at Xashville, Tenn., was drowned, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sperry lett for that point, Wednesday. The treasurer of the town of Scio will be at the county treasurer's office, to collect taxes, the last three Thursdays'in December; at Gregory's bank in Dcxter the four last Saturdays and at home Fridays. "The regular meeting of the North Main st. Boilerhouse club was held Saturday evening there being a full attendance present," remarks the Times in introducing a column article, from whichjt is evident that whether the attendance was "full" or not, the reporter was. The people of the Scio Center Sunday school have made preparations for a fair and social gathering, to be held Friday afternoon and evening, Dec. 14, '94, at the home of Thomas Stroh. Supper served at between 8 and 9 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited. Come everybody and bring somebody. The announcement is made that the Michigan Central will give special excursión rates from Grand Rapids, Kalama.oo, Jackson and intermedíate points for the Colum bian concert, December 14. Citizens of Ann Arbor can help to increase the attendance by inviting their friends out of town to be present. The concert will be an epoch in the history of the state and it will be of interest and enjoyment to every citi.en. When a street railway car runs over a dog and kills it, the men running the car ought to have respect enough for their patrons, if not for the people of our city, to take the carcass away, and not leave it to be a sickening sight to those who have to pass it. - Courier. That is right. The proper procedure in such a case is to hang the dog up by the tail- if he have a tail - to the tail end of the car, as a warning to all pups to look out for the Jehu express. This acorn, from the Adrián Press is designed for Judge Kii.ne to crack: "The Ann Árbor Courier has nominated Judge Kinne for the supreme bench. That may answer for local pride, but what we wish to know is, has Judge Kinne taken that old oak tree out of the sidewalk in front of his premises? He'll not get our support for Judge, so long as he insists on obstructing our way to him. Kin a man be elected who grows acorns in the public sidewalk?" The musical editor of the Jackson Citizen has no more symphony in his soul than a horse. He couldn't teil a buil tiddle from a Stradivarius bombajar. The University Glee club didn't tickle his ear at all and the Banjo club was only "passably good." Yet this same fellow yelled with delight when Forepaugh's steam caliope went screaming through town last summer, and wrote a half-column afticle on the pathos of accent and delicacy of touch, displayed by the "pianiste" who by the way was a red faced, beer bloated galoot. with a foot like a ham and a fist like a hammer. The man means well, no doubt, but in appreciation of fine cat-gut music he is as deficiënt as a beast. Hon. John J. Robison, of Sharon, was in the city, Tuesday. The exmayor of Ana Arbor has been engaged the past season in preparing a tract of 150 acres of burned swamp for a meadow, and relates the discovery of a pair of elk horns and numerous horns of deer who took themselves to the swamp to give up the ghost. Krom the skeleton of one deer, Mr. Robison extracted an Indian arrow head, showing how the animal had come to its death, at least 100 years ago, when bows and arrows instead of guns were the red men's weapons. It may have been many hundred years since the arrow was buried in the deer that owned the skeleton. Nobody can teil. E. S. Gilmore and McClellan Mogk have been elected directors of the local V. M. C. A. E. E. Cadieux will tomorrow occupy Hangsterfer's old confectionery stand on E. Washington street, as a barber shop. The Y. M. C. A. will remove to their hall over D. A. Tinker's, at about the time to celébrate the new year and give thanks for the prosperity of the old. Any person may draw a book from the Ladies' library, for one week, on payment of five cents. By order of the Board of the Ladies' Library Association. At the home of Wm. S. Whipple, of Northfield, on Tuesday evening, Rev. Henry Tatlock united in marriage Warren Boice and Miss Hattie S. Waters, of Toledo. The Buffalo alumni of the U. of M. were so delighted over the defeat of Cornell by Michigan, that they held a meeting to give a proper safety-valve vent to their feelings. A bulletin board "placed at the entrance of the M. C. depot will hereafter register the lateness of trains. It will also probably serve as a ballet in board for boys handy with revolvers. Geo. R. Barker has been elected by the Wrinkle editors, secretary of the board. No one has yet been found with sufficient animal courage o slide the weight further out on iarriman"s poetic safety valve. At the last meeting of the council he project of establishing a dog )ound and appointing a dog trapper was discussed, but dropped alter much statesmanlike effort. There appeared to be this fatal difficulty n the way: Life insurance companes regard the risk on a dog catcher's life as extra hazardous, unless he dress in a boiler iron suit. The council had none on hand, and ap- )licants were unwilling to furnish hemselves. Announcement cards forecast a social event oí much interest - the marriage of James Rowland Angell, son of President Angell of the University, and Miss Marion Watrous, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles each Watrous, of Des Moines, owa, the event being dated for Tuesday, Dec. iS, at St. Paul's church, at 6 p. n. Mr. and Mrs. Angell will be "at home" after February 20, at 5712 Monroe avenue, Chicago, 111. In the Unity Club course next Wonday and Tuesday evenings, James Kay Applebee, of Boston, will lecture on "Othello" and "Hamlet," and on the following Monday and Tuesday evenings he will lecture on "George Kliot" and "The Wit of the London Punch." Mr. ADplebee is a lectarer of remarkable forensic talent, and possesses the enviable gift of employing, without effort, words that are the happy and precise vesture of his thought. He rests rather than wearies his audiences. Prof. B. M. Thompson, in his lecture before the Inland League, on "Trial by Ordeal, or by Battle," stated that the time was, when persons accused of crimes were put to torture to extort a confession. If the individual racked, refused to confess, he was released as innocent - pretty badly "done up" for the rest of his life, of course, but then he was guiltless. We believe that the republican party in this state and county did not fairly get the election, and we demand that something like a million of them be thumb-screwed immediately, when it will be found that the democrats won. The lnland League will give an interesting entertainment Monday evening. Hesides a speciall)' prepared musical program there will be three addresses of twenty minutes each. Mrs. James B. Angell will discourse on the customs and habits of the Chinese, especially the wonnen. Mrs. J. N. Martin will describe her summer's outing in the east and Mrs. Rlsie Jones Cooley will entertain the League with an address concerning Italy.